Device for styling hair without hair pin

ABSTRACT

A hair styling device includes a housing having a chamber to receive hair of user, and one or more retaining members attached or extended from the lower peripheral portion of the housing. The retaining members each may include a leg extended from the lower peripheral portion of the housing, to form a slot between the leg and the housing, and to receive the hair of the user between the leg and the housing, and to secure the housing onto the hair of the user without additional hair pins or hair bands or hair nets or hair clips. The retaining member may include one or more swellings to engage with and to further secure the housing onto the hair of the user.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention

[0002] The present invention relates to a hair styling device, and moreparticularly to a hair styling device or a barrette for styling hairwithout additional hair pins or hair bands or hair nets or hair clips.

[0003] 2. Description of the Prior Art

[0004] Typical hair styling devices, such as hairpins or hair bands orhair nets or hair clips may be used to style hair of users. Similarly,the typical barrettes may also be used for styling hair of users, inorder to shape the hair of the users into such as the bun-shapedcontours.

[0005] However, the typical barrettes may not be used to solidly secureor retain onto the hair of the users, and one or more additional hairpins or hair bands or hair clips are further required to engage with thetypical barrettes and the hair of the users, in order to solidly secureor retain the typical barrettes onto the hair of the users, and toprevent the typical barrettes from being disengaged from the hair of theusers.

[0006] The present invention has arisen to mitigate and/or obviate theafore-described disadvantages of the conventional hair styling devices.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

[0007] The primary objective of the present invention is to provide ahair styling device or a barrette having one or more retaining membersprovided thereon for styling hair and for attaching onto the hair of theusers without additional hair pins or hair bands or hair nets or hairclips.

[0008] In accordance with one aspect of the invention, there is provideda hair styling device comprising a housing including a chamber formedtherein to receive hair of user, and including a lower peripheralportion, and at least one retaining member provided on the lowerperipheral portion of the housing, and including a leg extended from thelower peripheral portion of the housing, to form a slot between the legand the lower peripheral portion of the housing, and to receive the hairof the user between the leg and the lower peripheral portion of thehousing, and to secure the housing onto the hair of the user withoutadditional hair pins or hair bands or hair nets or hair clips.

[0009] The retaining member includes at least one swelling extended fromthe leg thereof, to engage with the hair of the user, and to furthersecure the housing onto the hair of the user. The housing includes atleast one recess formed in the lower peripheral portion thereof, toreceive the swelling of the retaining member, and to solidly engage withthe hair of the user.

[0010] The housing includes a helical groove formed therein, and definedby a helical member, to allow the hair of the user to be seen throughthe helical groove of the housing.

[0011] Further objectives and advantages of the present invention willbecome apparent from a careful reading of the detailed descriptionprovided hereinbelow, with appropriate reference to the accompanyingdrawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0012]FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a hair styling device inaccordance with the present invention;

[0013]FIG. 2 is a perspective view illustrating the operation of thehair styling device, or illustrating the attachment of the hair stylingdevice onto the hair of the user;

[0014]FIG. 3 is a cross sectional view taken along lines 3-3 of FIG. 2;

[0015]FIG. 4 is a perspective view similar to FIG. 1, illustratinganother embodiment of the hair styling device; and

[0016]FIG. 5 is a perspective view similar to FIGS. 1 and 4,illustrating a further embodiment of the hair styling device.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

[0017] Referring to the drawings, and initially to FIGS. 1-3, a hairstyling device in accordance with the present invention is similar to abarrette or the like, and comprises a housing 11, such as a cone-shapedhousing 11 including a chamber 12 formed or provided therein to receivethe hair 90 of the users, in order to form such as bun-shaped hairmembers 91.

[0018] The housing 10 of the hair styling device includes a helicalgroove 14 formed therein, and defined by a helical member 15, forallowing the hair 90 of the user to be seen through the helical groove14 of the housing 10.

[0019] The housing 10 includes a lower peripheral portion 17 having oneor more retaining members 30, such as latches, clips, etc., formed orprovided thereon, for engaging with or onto the hair 90 of the user, andfor solidly attaching or securing the housing 10 onto the hair 90 of theuser.

[0020] For example, each of the retaining members 30 includes a leg 31extended from the lower peripheral portion 17 of the housing 10, ordirectly extended from the helical member 15 of the housing 10, to formor define a gap or slot 32 between the leg 31 of the retaining member 30and the lower peripheral portion 17 of the housing 10, for receiving thehair 90 of the user, and for securing the housing 10 onto the hair 90 ofthe user.

[0021] Each of the retaining members 30 may further include one or moreswellings 33 extended from the leg 31 thereof, to further engage withthe hair 90 of the user, and to further secure the housing 10 onto thehair 90 of the user, as also shown in FIGS. 4, 5.

[0022] The housing 10 may further include one or more recesses 19 formedin the lower peripheral portion 17 thereof, to receive the swellings 33of the retaining member 30, and thus to solidly engage the retainingmembers 30 of the housing 10 with the hair 90 of the user, and so as tofurther solidly secure the housing 10 onto the hair 90 of the user.

[0023] As shown in FIG. 4, the housing 10 may have no recesses 19 formedtherein to receive the swellings 33 of the retaining member 30. As shownin FIG. 5, the housing 10 may also be formed into a net-shapedstructure, or other decorative configurations.

[0024] In operation, as shown in FIG. 2, the housing 10 may be easilyengaged and secured onto the hair 90 of the user by rotating the housing10 relative to the hair 90 of the user, for allowing the hair 90 of theuser to be solidly retained between the lower peripheral portion 17 ofthe housing 10 and the retaining members 30.

[0025] The retaining members 30 are solidly provided or extended fromthe housing 10, and thus will not be disengaged from the housing 10.

[0026] Accordingly, the hair styling device in accordance with thepresent invention includes one or more retaining members providedthereon for styling hair and for attaching onto the hair of the userswithout additional hairpins or hair bands or hairnets or hair clips.

[0027] Although this invention has been described with a certain degreeof particularity, it is to be understood that the present disclosure hasbeen made by way of example only and that numerous changes in thedetailed construction and the combination and arrangement of parts maybe resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of theinvention as hereinafter claimed.

I claim:
 1. A hair styling device comprising: a housing including achamber formed therein to receive hair of user, and including a lowerperipheral portion, and at least one retaining member provided on saidlower peripheral portion of said housing, and including a leg extendedfrom said lower peripheral portion of said housing, to form a slotbetween said leg and said lower peripheral portion of said housing, andto receive the hair of the user between said leg and said lowerperipheral portion of said housing, and to secure said housing onto thehair of the user.
 2. The hair styling device as claimed in claim 1,wherein said at least one retaining member includes at least oneswelling extended from said leg thereof, to engage with the hair of theuser, and to secure said housing onto the hair of the user.
 3. The hairstyling device as claimed in claim 2, wherein said housing includes atleast one recess formed in said lower peripheral portion thereof, toreceive said at least one swelling of said at least one retainingmember, and to solidly engage with the hair of the user.
 4. The hairstyling device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said housing includes ahelical groove formed therein, and defined by a helical member, to allowthe hair of the user to be seen through said helical groove of saidhousing.